"Arriving at Feminism Backwards..."

Striving not to be caught in either side of the gender inequality wars... Jennifer Fox fought against the "rules for girls," but also refused to identify with those awful "mannish" women.

Until she woke up one day, searching for what was missing in her life. A filmmaker, she began with her camera... filming her own life and then the lives of other women, a journey that consumed both years and continents...

You can read the rest of her post here...

There is something so very alluring about the story of a woman who fights incredibly hard to write her own story, by living her life on her own terms and no one else's... that she casts herself in the role-- perhaps not even consciously-- of being the natural storyteller, not just of her own life, but of the lives of women of all ages, and all over the world. There is something so unifying about the notion that her being/doing are exactly the same thing. For so many of us, they rarely are.